-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 January 2003 04:52 am, Hugh A.J. Kennedy wrote: > I have a multiboot notebook with Win98/Win2K and RH 8.0 Linux. The > Win98 partition and the 2K partition (FAT and NTFS respectively) are > mounted when RH8.0 boots. I have a soft link going from > /usr/share/local/fonts to /mnt/C/WINDOWS/FONTS for each ttf font and > this works fine and fc-cache sees everything. Yes, I edited > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as well!! > > I wish to nuke my 98 installation, but I still have to keep 2k for the > present. Attempting the same soft link to /mnt/E/WINNT/fonts works but > fc-cache fails to see anything on Linux (it doesn't report errors > though) . Note that I link the fonts *not* the font directory because > font-cache will want to write some data there and the NTFS partition is > not mounted writeable. Local copies of the 2K fonts work fine, but I > don't want to gobble up 50MB or so with something I have elsewhere on > disk. > > Maybe fc-chache doesn't like NT files (strange, it gets on ok with 98) > or worse, maybe it doesn't like ro-files? The kernel, unless you've recompiled it, isn't able to read ntfs filesystems. $ grep -i ntfs kernel-2.4.18-i686.config # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Iqqdn/07WoAb/SsRAr4nAKCOyRjZWUsAipWPvTwVwRUVGdwBXACcD0K3 an3p8LgJC8VikDMDmBaFQOA= =M615 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
